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Decision: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

With an auspicious and a dropping eye, With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 12.

And her yes, once said to you, SHALL be Yes for evermore.— E. B. BROWNING — The Lady's Yes.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.— EMERSON — Essay. Culture.

Decide not rashly. The decision made Can never be recalled. The gods implore not, Plead not, solicit not; they only offer Choice and occasion, which once being passed Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?— LONGFELLOW — Masque of Pandora.

Tower of Prometheus on Mount Caucasus. Once to every man and nation come the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.— LOWELL — The Present Crisis.

I am here; I shall remain here.— MARSHAL MACMAHON — In the

. Trenches before the Malakoff. Men must be decided on what they will NOT do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. S.— MENCIUS — Works. Bk. IV. Pt. II. Ch. VIII.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.— MILTON — Horace.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? น. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. III. Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter.— Shakespeare — Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 4

Determine on some course, More than a wild exposure to each chance That starts i' the way before thee.— Shakespeare — Coriolanus. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 35.

For what I will, I will, and there an end.— Shakespeare — Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 65.

Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.— Shakespeare — Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 171.

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.— DUKE OF WELLINGTON — Letter to Mr.